.NET Aspire Core Principles 1. AppHost orchestrates; it is never deployed itself — Aspire's core job is the local development experience: starting services, databases, and message brokers together. Modern Aspire also generates deployment assets ( for docker-compose/Kubernetes manifests, for Azure Container Apps) — but the AppHost process itself stays a dev/build-time tool, not a production runtime. 2. Service defaults are your baseline — The project configures OpenTelemetry, health checks, and resilience for all services in one place. 3. Use Aspire integrations — Aspire has built-in integrati…